Archive for the 'Free Software' Category
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Keep in mind this is REALLY not supported by Google since they only support it for the 8110, 8120, & 8130. This is the new voice search version that was released as an experimental version by Google.
One of our readers, Hank, discovered that you can install it on a 8300 or 8800 series device just [...]
17 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, GPS, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
You may have remembered a short while back we featured a great new theme from eVeek called ‘Football Zen’ - well since that theme went over so big, they decided to create and add two more sport themes to the collection. The Basketball Zen theme and the Soccer Zen theme. Sports fans will love these [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in 8100 Pearl, 8300 Curve, 8800/8830, Free Software, Themes
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Once again this one is only for people interested in Hebrew biblical texts on their BlackBerry. I know we mentioned that this was coming before but Hebrew in Hand just released a beta program of their application that is now customized for the BlackBerry. Keep in mind this is still in beta but it does [...]
1 Comment » | Posted in Documents, Free Software, News
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I know quite a few people who have asked me if there was a keyboard shortcut to send an SMS message. Just like you can hit ‘C’ to compose an email.
BerryCoder once again comes to the rescue with QSMS. If you install this application you can use the ‘Q’ shortcut to compose an SMS!
The best [...]
23 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I just got an email from BerryCoder that they have released a free memory optimization application for BlackBerry. They claim it frees up to 5MB of memory on your BlackBerry no matter what the type! Not only it releases memory, you will also feel slight increase in response time. MaxMem will remove apps, themes, and [...]
23 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News, Utilities
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
This application is so absurd that I had to mention it. The good guys at CrackBerry mentioned it and once again I was amazed by the tried and true “If you built it they will come install it.” This is the equivalent of a screensaver for your BlackBerry; cute but useless. I wonder if we [...]
3 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, News
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I was just reading a post by Hayden about an interesting service by Moodio. The service essentially lets you listen to most web radio feeds from the native RIM media player application. It just recodes them into low bitrate streams.
From what I can tell this is OS 4.5 only but it may work with OS [...]
14 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Music, News
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I know we mentioned this early last month but the software was not available then and we kind of forgot about it. Harold just sent me a link to the download page and the application actually looks quite cool. Now you can act on those insider trading tips while smoking your cigar at the boys [...]
7 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Internet, News, User Submitted, Utilities
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Josep sent me a link to a post by rpol8052 on PinStack. Turns out that there is a maintenance update available for Documents To Go on OS 4.5. The update brings you up from 1.000.080 to version 1.002.016. No idea what changed other than the addition of Sheets To Go which is a spreadsheet application. If [...]
11 Comments » | Posted in Documents, Free Software, News
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Both Mark & Josep sent me a link that TVersity that we mentioned back in May is now available in their latest Release Candidate. Keep in mind this is not an official release and is just a Release Candidate which is essentially admitting that there are bugs. TVersity lets you stream your media collection to [...]
14 Comments » | Posted in Free Software, Multimedia, News, User Submitted, Video